Clover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJCKLGMNOPQPP PORSPPTUVPWXYZA2B2PC 2D2PE2PYPYPF2G2H2I2C ILIGGHJ2PK2L2JPPM2ZP N2O2P2PQ2PUPR2S2N2UT 2U2RU2V2LB2W2R2LPS2J X2GHPLPY2D2PUZ2PRLV2 PK2B2A3JB3CPC3H2D3PH PE3YPPRRPF3G3 F3

Inscribed to the Memory of John KeatsA
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Dear uplands Chester's favorable fieldsB
My large unjealous Loves many yet oneC
A grave good morrow to your Graces allD
Fair tilth and fruitful seasonsE
Lo how stillF
The midmorn empties you of men save meG
Speak to your lover meadows None can hearH
I lie as lies yon placid BrandywineI
Holding the hills and heavens in my heartJ
For contemplationC
'Tis a perfect hourK
From founts of dawn the fluent autumn dayL
Has rippled as a brook right pleasantlyG
Half way to noon but now with widening turnM
Makes pause in lucent meditation lockedN
And rounds into a silver pool of mornO
Bottom'd with clover fields My heart just hearsP
Eight lingering strokes of some far village bellQ
That speak the hour so inward voiced meseemsP
Time's conscience has but whispered him eight hintsP
Of revolution Reigns that mild surceaseP
That stills the middle of each rural mornO
When nimble noises that with sunrise ranR
About the farms have sunk again to restS
When Tom no more across the horse lot callsP
To sleepy Dick nor Dick husk voiced upbraidsP
The sway back'd roan for stamping on his footT
With sulphurous oath and kick in flank what timeU
The cart chain clinks across the slanting shaftV
And kitchenward the rattling bucket plumpsP
Souse down the well where quivering ducks quack loudW
And Susan Cook is singingX
Up the skyY
The hesitating moon slow trembles onZ
Faint as a new washed soul but lately upA2
From out a buried body Far aboutB2
A hundred slopes in hundred fantasiesP
Most ravishingly run so smooth of curveC2
That I but seem to see the fluent plainD2
Rise toward a rain of clover blooms as lakesP
Pout gentle mounds of plashment up to meetE2
Big shower drops Now the little winds as beesP
Bowing the blooms come wandering where I lieY
Mixt soul and body with the clover tuftsP
Light on my spirit give from wing and thighY
Rich pollens and divine sweet irritantsP
To every nerve and freshly make reportF2
Of inmost Nature's secret autumn thoughtG2
Unto some soul of sense within my frameH2
That owns each cognizance of the outlying fiveI2
And sees hears tastes smells touches all in oneC
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Tell me dear Clover since my soul is thineI
Since I am fain give study all the dayL
To make thy ways my ways thy service mineI
To seek me out thy God my God to beG
And die from out myself to live in theeG
Now Cousin Clover tell me in mine earH
Go'st thou to market with thy pink and greenJ2
Of what avail this color and this graceP
Wert thou but squat of stem and brindle brownK2
Still careless herds would feed A poet thouL2
What worth what worth the whole of all thine artJ
Three Leaves instruct me I am sick of priceP
Framed in the arching of two clover stemsP
Where through I gaze from off my hill afarM2
The spacious fields from me to Heaven take onZ
Tremors of change and new significanceP
To th' eye as to the ear a simple taleN2
Begins to hint a parable's sense beneathO2
The prospect widens cuts all bounds of blueP2
Where horizontal limits bend and spreadsP
Into a curious hill'd and curious valley'd VastQ2
Endless before behind around which seemsP
Th' incalculable Up and Down of TimeU
Made plain before mine eyes The clover stemsP
Still cover all the space but now they bearR2
For clover blooms fair stately heads of menS2
With poets' faces heartsome dear and paleN2
Sweet visages of all the souls of timeU
Whose loving service to the world has beenT2
In the artist's way expressed and bodied OhU2
In arms' reach here be Dante Keats ChopinR
Raphael Lucretius Omar AngeloU2
Beethoven Chaucer Schubert Shakespeare BachV2
And Buddha sweetest masters Let me layL
These arms this once this humble once aboutB2
Your reverend necks the most containing claspW2
For all in all this world e'er saw and thereR2
Yet further on bright throngs unnamableL
Of workers worshipful nobilitiesP
In the Court of Gentle Service silent menS2
Dwellers in woods brooders on helpful artJ
And all the press of them the fair the largeX2
That wrought with beautyG
Lo what bulk is hereH
Now comes the Course of things shaped like an OxP
Slow browsing o'er my hillside ponderouslyL
The huge brawned tame and workful Course of thingsP
That hath his grass if earth be round or flatY2
And hath his grass if empires plunge in painD2
Or faiths flash out This cool unasking OxP
Comes browsing o'er my hills and vales of TimeU
And thrusts me out his tongue and curls it sharpZ2
And sicklewise about my poets' headsP
And twists them in all Dante Keats ChopinR
Raphael Lucretius Omar AngeloL
Beethoven Chaucer Schubert Shakespeare BachV2
And Buddha in one sheaf and champs and chewsP
With slantly churning jaws and swallows downK2
Then slowly plants a mighty forefoot outB2
And makes advance to futureward one inchA3
So they have played their partJ
And to this endB3
This God This troublous breeding Earth This SunC
Of hot quick pains To this no end that endsP
These Masters wrought and wept and sweated bloodC3
And burned and loved and ached with public shameH2
And found no friends to breathe their loves to saveD3
Woods and wet pillows This was all This OxP
Nay quoth a sum of voices in mine earH
God's clover we and feed His Course of thingsP
The pasture is God's pasture systems strangeE3
Of food and fiberment He hath wherebyY
The general brawn is built for plans of HisP
To quality precise Kinsman learn thisP
The artist's market is the heart of manR
The artist's price some little good of manR
Tease not thy vision with vain search for endsP
The End of Means is art that works by loveF3
The End of Ends in God's Beginning's lostG3
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West Chester Pa Summer ofF3

Sidney Lanier



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